Plan For Success: Pre-Planning Affiliate Strategies

On June 10, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, By 5¢

How often have you come across a marketing campaign that strikes you as ill-conceived, slightly out of the times, and generally unimportant in the current climate of marketing and consumer spending. They’re everywhere — unlikely intentionally, but they’re certainly a part of our lives. And while these marketing plans much produce some returns — they’d certainly be canceled or at least modified should they not — they don’t truly connect with us like they could.

Part of this is the massive change in marketing that’s going on currently. With the new methods of communication and message spreading made possible by the social web, companies are desperate to hop aboard the train and get their wares out their and in the open. Twitter, Facebook and other sexy companies are taking up the main view in many marketers’ radars, and entire divisions of companies are being created to decide exactly how to make the most of these innovative new social tools.

The thing is, they’re often poorly planned out. Especially amongst affiliate marketers, the propensity for completely inane and improper social media use is sky-high, and considered a common sense part of our marketing efforts. While it undoubtedly brings around results, much like the relatively poor TV ads of yesteryear, those results are hard to measure in a relative field. How much did your social media campaign really cost you? Not just in terms of cost, since the barrier to enter social media realms is very low, but in terms of the time cost and effort expenditure.

For affiliate marketers, we need to pre-plan our strategies and work around relative results, not just results alone. Opportunity cost should be a huge concern for affiliate marketers, especially if you’re paying other people to work for you. Which metrics bring in the most value and stomp on all the others? Those are the metrics that should be focused on, not those that have the most sex appeal and the greatest amount of attention in the public world.

After all, it’s about sales, isn’t it? We’re all out there trying to boost sales, fight off a lack of spending in a recession, and find the best niches to maximize profits in. But when these diversions and distractions get in the way of finding the most profitable marketing metrics, it’s important to take a step back and take stock of what is and isn’t working. Forcing yourself into a medium that doesn’t sell isn’t the way forward. Finding the most profitable medium, be it SEO, PPC, or social media marketing (or any other) is where the money is.

In order to see truly remarkable affiliate sales results, you need to plan your marketing campaigns to make use of not just the most current and valuable marketing tools, but those that produce highly valuable results. Twitter and Facebook will come and go. What won’t come and go is the customer base that supports you, evangelizes you and keeps on talking.

To learn more about affiliate marketing, check out the free Fire Your Boss report. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link if you sign up at Clickbank Pirate.

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Maximizing The Success Of Your Website

On May 17, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

Do you have a website and you’re upset that you aren’t getting
much traffic to it? You’re not alone. Most websites that get
started often fail within the first six months to a year. The
problem doesn’t have to do with the content, most of the time,
the problem has to do with your marketing efforts. How are you
marketing your website? If you’re like most people you tell all
your friends and family and even your coworkers, you spam all the
social networking sites, or maybe you make up signs and post them
around town. Whatever you do, if you’re not seeing traffic,
you’re not doing the right thing. How do you find out what to do
to drive that traffic you’re looking for? You only have to look
to the experts. But expert advice is expensive, isn’t it? Maybe
not.

Meet Tellman Knudson. Tellman used a system called ETS, or Easy
Traffic Steps, to create and maintain a steady flow of traffic to
his site. He also made 2.5 million dollars last year doing this
very thing, and he also created a client base of three hundred
thousand dedicated customers. Now, reading this, most people
would assume that this ETS system is complicated and it only
takes someone who knows the ins and outs of internet marketing to
do well. That’s just not the case, however. In fact, Tellman
stresses that anyone can succeed with ETS, as long as they follow
the system.

ETS is a system comprised of twenty powerful steps that are
guaranteed to drive traffic to your site. You’ll learn how to
maintain that traffic as well. If there’s a stream of traffic,
ETS will teach you how to get in front of that traffic. You’ll
also learn the mistakes most beginning internet marketers make
and how to avoid making those mistakes. All of this can be yours
and you’ll be making money like you never dreamed possible, while
your website is enjoying the traffic it deserves. Don’t let all
that hard work go unnoticed. The ETS system will show you what to
do and how to do it so that you never have to waste your time
with marketing gimmicks that don’t work.

The ETS system is easy to follow. It’s so easy anyone can do it.
Just look up all the ETS testimonials from people who have used
this system to maximize their traffic. People are making money
like never before and they’re using a system that actually works.
Many claim to have the answers but only ETS can guarantee to
bring you the traffic you need.

If you’ve ever tried another marketing system, you know how many
false promises there are out there. This isn’t one of them. This
system is easy to follow, it’s a proven system and everyone who
has a website should follow the Easy Traffic Steps system. For
more information on this great system, go to
www.EasyTrafficSteps.com and see why so many webmasters are
choosing ETS for their marketing efforts.

To learn more about getting traffic to your website, check out
the free Traffic Turbo report.

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Social Marketing Part 2

On May 10, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢
Leveraging Social Marketing For SEO

Social Bookmarking and Social Marketing Are Essential

Social media marketing is proving to be an effective marketing strategy for Internet businesses. It is closely tied with search engine optimization because of its effect on search engine results. While there is often a discussion about whether SEO or social marketing is more important, there is finally a concurrence on the fact that both are necessary for a website to be effective. Websites cannot do without search engine optimization. At the same time, social marketing sites are also becoming an essential marketing tool for the success of a website. In fact, there’s a healthy overlap in the way both work, when used together. Social book marking is very popularly used and every time a marketer’s website or blog are book marked, an inbound link is made. Through these social bookmarking sites, users can rate or vote for the content, further enhancing its popularity and link building along with traffic – both indirect and direct.

Combining Social Marketing With SEO

Effective search engine optimization is a must for all website owners. While many online marketers do try to follow various SEO strategies, some outsource the job. SEO mainly involves the usage of the right keywords at the right locations along with appropriate links so that the website is optimized to the search engines that spider it. This involves researching and identifying the right keywords. But the big task that online marketers face is using social marketing to achieve SEO effectively. Though this seems like a challenge, it is becoming necessary to be proficient at both. And it is not as difficult as it appears. For example, every time a blog or web page is book marked through social bookmarking tools by the website owner, it means more search engine optimization, traffic generation and more links. If a visitor votes on the content, blog or articles on a website, they provide the SEO and linking advantage.

How Social Media Affects SEO There are three major ways in which social media can have a bearing on search engine optimization. These are: Links: when the social media marketing campaign is well designed and successful, it means a lot of high quality incoming links to the website. As far as search engine rankings go, inbound links play an important role. So it is obvious that social media marketing definitely improves search engine rankings. What makes these links special is that they are neither purchased nor forced – they all happen as a natural and voluntary process. Quality inbound links also occur when the marketer creates a profile on social networking sites. Reputation: the most popular social media sites are ranked high by the search engines. This must however be carefully managed as the marketer must take care to ensure that there are positive bookmarks for his products or business on social bookmarking sites like Digg, etc. Then it is easy to rank high in the search engine listings. But if there is something negative that people are talking about, the same thing could turn into bad publicity. It is up to the marketer to manage this in a way that there’s only good publicity.

Page Rank On Social Marketing Websites

Social media marketing sites are all part of the Web 2.0 platform and search engines are quite partial to these sites. So if the marketer gets a good page ranking on these sites, a good search engine ranking follows naturally. Social sites are excellent for high ranking even with a few links. For online business that are about to launch their websites, rather than wait for the search engines to index and rank them, they go ahead and upload a marketing video clip on YouTube or make a profile on sites like MySpace or Facebook and begin the link building process. This not only helps in huge traffic generation benefits but also gets the message out to large numbers of potential customers at minimal cost.

All online marketers today must get accustomed to using social bookmarking websites. While discovering different ways to leverage these sites, it is also important to be familiar with the rules on each site. Spamming is taken very seriously on these sites where the content is user controlled. The main thing is to post quality content and be active on these sites to get the full advantage.



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Social Marketing Part 1

On May 10, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢
Social Marketing – A Win Win Win Situation

Why Social Marketing?

At the rate at which the world wide web is changing, it is not surprising that internet marketers are going ‘social’ and recognizing the value of social networking sites like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Going by the statistics on the amounts of unimaginable traffic these sites are experiencing, what Internet marketer wouldn’t want a huge share of it? In order to be in the race, these social media sites are very important and must be leveraged in a way that makes sense to the specific online business. These sites not only play a vital role in search engine optimization but also for high search engine rankings and therefore, traffic.

How The Concept Works

One marketer talks about how his site turned up in the first page of Google’s search results for a particular key phrase even though the key phrase was not one of his targeted keywords. What had actually happened was one of his site’s visitors book marked that page on his site on Digg, which is a social bookmarking site. As a result of this, his website saw a massive rush of traffic. While this didn’t make a big difference in the sense of marketing, he soon realized how it made a difference to his search engine rankings – which means people do come to his website simply because his site still ranks at first place for that key phrase. So the moral of the story is, social media sites play a crucial role in search engine rankings and are not to be ignored.

Happily, social bookmarking brings direct traffic from websites that are ranked among the top five for traffic. Almost all Internet users would have had a brush with social media by signing up with say, MySpace or Facebook. But it is not enough to create a profile and let it collect dust. It can be an effective means to build an entire business successfully by leveraging these sites by going about it in a planned and strategic manner, as many well-written social bookmarking guides will tell you.

Social Media Tactics That Work

It is not hard to become involved with social bookmark sites. There are easy to install and use bookmark tools, which allow the user to add the bookmark button to their pages and content. When these pages and content are visited by traffic, they are book marked and links are built. Most Internet marketers use the simple tactic of joining all these social media sites as they are all free to sign up with – which means they sign up with MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Squidoo and the rest of it which are all part of the Web 2.0 platform. For the Internet marketer who wants to try social media marketing there are different methods depending on the kind of products and services offered and what outcome is expected. Here’s a quick overview of the ones that are the most popular vis-à-vis goals:

  • Social bookmarking sites: like Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us where members can rate content
  • Video sharing sites: the highest traffic numbers are at YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc. these sites allow uploading and sharing of one’s own videos as well as others’.
  • Business networking sites: like Ryze, LinkedIn that allow a free personal web page as well as extra facilities with upgrade to paid memberships.
  • Photo sharing sites: the most popular ones are Flickr, Webshots, Shutterfly which have huge member lists
  • Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace etc are good networking tools with plenty of groups within formed by like-minded people.

Social media marketing helps to form good relationships that in turn convert to business and referrals for the online marketer in addition to massive traffic generation. Granted that they do take a regular investment of time, but the benefits are of a long-term nature. The best benefit is building links, which is what keeps an online business flourishing. Posting good content on the sites suggested above has millions of viewers who in turn bookmark and share the information, thereby increasing the number of links to the site.

Social bookmarking works for any size of business through a few simple strategies. The main thing to be cautious about is following the rules at these websites in order to be successful.

To Be Continued…
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Viral Marketing – Where Free Is Priceless

On May 9, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

The healthiest online business is the ones that use viral marketing techniques. And certainly health is wealth in this instance. This simple yet effective method is amazing in terms of:

* Traffic generation
* Brand building
* Link building
* List building
* Profits

And it all happens at practically no investment. How can any Internet market not cash in on viral marketing? It is not as if viral marketing is a new phenomenon. It is as old as time itself – and just as important.

There are plenty of viral marketing techniques that can be harnessed to your advantage, and with the advent of Web 2.0, it has become even more easy – and fun – to make use of these techniques. What can be nicer than creating a powerful message – and then sitting back and letting others do the work for you? All you need is a memorable message that is exciting enough to have the immediate urge to tell everyone.

Lets look at some viral marketing techniques that are doing the rounds very successfully:

* Ebooks and reports are among the ideal viral marketing tools. It costs almost nothing to create an ebook. You can either offer it for free in various ways or sell it. You can let your recipients rebrand it and sell it as their own. You can offer resale rights. The main thing here is to ensure that you provide a link to you on each page so that all those who receive it in the chain can come back to visit your website.
* Free optin ezines are used as a viral marketing technique to build targeted lists which is a must for any online marketing business. By creating a useful ezine that’s either html, email, web or blog based, it caters to the hungry information seekers on the internet who can then sign up to continue receiving it and also tell others about it.
* Offering viral articles for reprint is another effective viral marketing tool. The beauty of this is in its simplicity through a well-written article, optimized for search, with the author’s resource box that provides a link and a call to action. This can also be reprinted for free, so long as it is reproduced in its entirety – resource box and all. As the article makes the rounds on the article directories and gets posted on various related websites, the traffic pours in through the link in it.

Today, Social marketing sites and blogs are a gold mine for generating targeted traffic. As part of the Web 2.0 platform, they allow the Internet marketer to effectively use viral marketing techniques in an interactive way with his prospective customers.

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How To Use ClickBank Effectively – Video Series

On April 29, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Publishing, Recommendations, By 5¢

When I first got started trying to make money online it didn’t take long to discover ClickBank. I bought my first Internet Marketing eBooks through CB and soon was introduced to the amazing world of AFFILIATE MARKETING. This is not a new concept by any means but through the internet it has taken off over the last several years like wild fire. Companies like Amazon literally exploded overnight through their adoption of Affiliate Marketing. At the same time Amazon has created a way for millions of people to earn from home selling other peoples products as well as their own.

The biggest set back for most is knowing how and where to get started. So, to help you avoid the long and windy journey of trying to figure out what to do on your own like I did…  I have published these simple instructional videos on how to use ClickBank effectively for you. Check them out below and leave a comment if you have any questions or feedback. Please note these are large files so they may take a while to load. Be patient they are worth your time if you are planning to use ClickBank to earn money online. (And you should if you’re not already!)

Enjoy learning and growing your online income!

Sincerely,
Keith “Nickel” Langevin

ClickBank Video #1 – Getting Started
ClickBank Video #2 – Moving Forward
ClickBank Video #3&4 – More Promo Techniques and Wrapping it up

P.S. To learn more about making money online, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, and other interests of mine, browse more articles here at my blog and please leave a comment or two.

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How You Can Drive Traffic To Your Site

On April 28, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Web Traffic Generation, By 5¢

Creating a website takes lots of hard work and dedication. Not
only is time spent perfecting the graphics and the overall look
of the website, but the copy as well as the artwork needs to be
just right. But even after all that, your website needs to be
tailored to a certain audience and the content needs to be such
that someone will actually want to visit the site. If your site
doesn’t offer anything, nobody will want to visit it and that
means website death. So after all that, how do you get people to
come to your website? One person claims to have the answer.

That person’s name is Tellman Knudson and he promises to teach
you about the 20 most powerful traffic streams that are
guaranteed to drive traffic to your site. As every internet
marketer knows, if you don’t have traffic, your website will not
last long. The ETS system is designed to make sure your website
not only gets seen, but also becomes profitable, provided you
have created those steps to turn your traffic into dollar signs.

Tellman used these same steps he talks about in ETS to make 2.5
million dollars last year and he created a client base of over
three hundred thousand dedicated buyers. And he’s teaching others
his secrets, allowing them to maximize their profits with his
easy to follow system. Easy Traffic Steps is just that, it’s very
easy to follow. Anyone can do it and it makes driving traffic to
a website easier than ever before. All you have to do is order
Easy Traffic Steps and you’ll see that driving traffic to your
site and maintaining that traffic isn’t difficult as long as you
know the tricks that expert internet marketers know; and you
implement them for your website.

You’ll learn the top tips on how to drive traffic to your site,
how to get in front of traffic that’s already flowing, how to get
the big guys to send you traffic for free, and most of all you’ll
learn the mistakes that new marketers make that essentially kills
traffic so that you don’t make those same mistakes yourself.
After reading the Easy Traffic Steps system, you’ll understand
why what you’re doing isn’t working. You’ll better understand why
people visit websites and why they don’t want to visit yours.
You’ll be able to put all of this together to ensure that you
don’t make any mistakes and you’ll be able to create and maintain
a solid stream of traffic. Isn’t that what every webmaster dreams
about?

You’ve spent countless hours on your website making sure it’s
just right. You’ve perfected the graphics, made sure the pictures
pop out, made sure the copy was spelled correctly and contained
information that people would find useful; and most of all you’ve
tailored it to a certain audience and made sure people would
actually want to visit your site. It would be a shame if you had
to call it quits because nobody’s seeing it. Let Tellman Knudson
help you with his ETS system and finally get that traffic you
need to make your business and website a success.

To learn more about getting traffic to your website, check out
the free Traffic Turbo report.


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Need a New-School Marketing Method?

On March 15, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, By 5¢

Marketing is one of those domains that’s being summarily thrown on its own head right now. Like finance and manufacturing, marketing has long been something that existed without waves and changes. TV ads were the greatest currency, followed by radio and newspaper coverage. If you had the exposure and the audience, you had the sales, and even the most blunt and ineffective marketing campaign could get by with enough faces looking at it.

Sound familiar? That was the face of the marketing world just ten years ago, when mass marketing was still the flavor of the month and consumers still responded to incentives laid out on mainstream TV. Boy, how things have changed since then. Nowadays, companies are slowly realizing just how ineffective that method of marketing is becoming, and are rapidly switching to a new model built on value creation, interaction and massive customer feedback potential.

Affiliate marketers should be leading the way online. Lets face it – they’ve got the most riding on it. When you’re an affiliate marketer, all your sales rely on consumer confidence, spending patterns and quality of your products. When you’re getting people onto your websites, you need those conversions, and anything other than a buy is something best avoided. Traffic just doesn’t work any more. You need targeted traffic where you once needed any old traffic, and you’re beginning to need evangelized traffic where targeted traffic once worked.

Take a look at your affiliate sales and see if things are working in your favor. The greatest affiliate marketers — the marketers making $10,000+ per month — are working ahead of everyone else, building the strategies that make them millions month after month. Everyone else, well, they’re scrambling around trying to pick the pieces up off the floor.

By applying some simple strategies, you can move from the back of the pack up to the front. Set the pace, don’t simply follow along picking up someone else’s leftovers. By being at the front of the affiliate marketing pack you can set the speed, pick up all the rewards, and leave the others to worry about the competition and the strategy. Using the advice and strategy in this free report, you can speed up and move yourself to the front of the pack.

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Don’t bicker at the back and pick up the pieces, be a leader and set the pace. By using this free report, you can ignore the naysayers and set the pace yourself.

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Need Web Hosting? Need To Know How To Use It?

On March 3, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, By 5¢

What’s all the buzz about GVO?

GVO (Global Virtual Opportunities) formerly Kiosk is a company owned by Joel Therien who has a 12 year track of experience in the network marketing and internet marketing industries.

GVO has rapidly created a big buzz in the internet marketing and the MLM , Network marketing arenas due to the fact that it is the only company online that has the know how and the expertise to join these two very important business models in a once in a lifetime opportunity.

What makes GVO such an incredible business opportunity?

The answer to this question is twofold:

First of all when you get your hosting package through GVO you will get several services like unlimited auto responder system, complete video marketing system with easy video producer and video hosting, full audio and video conferencing system, downtime monitoring software, that not only are included but that will also mean significant savings compared to buying all these services separately.

Second, you will have the opportunity to participate in a MLM compensation plan that is much more than a simple affiliate program and makes it an entire business in itself, let me explain:

How do I get compensated?

To motivate you to promote the business, GVO pays you 50% commission on the first month of every person that is directly sponsored by you.

Then we have the 2 x 10 Binary Hybrid Matrix Plan that will pay you 5% per month of up to levels down making this a full matrix of 2,046 people and that alone will earn you $4,600.00 per month!

Wait! It gets even better because you will also get a 20% matching bonus on your personal referrals down to 10 levels.

Once you have a downline of 14 people or more then you earn a new profit position in the matrix that you can also make money off of.

What guarantees that people will stay?

If you have been online for some time and you are serious about building an internet business, you know that in today’s market, these are tools that you or any internet marketer can’t afford not to have and that you will be using on a daily basis and that is the key that makes the compensation plan a very successful one.

With this business model you will build an organization of avid and constant users who will be using the services everyday to run their businesses and therefore will be happy to keep paying their monthly fee!

How do I join?

At GVO we even give you the opportunity to try us and fall in love with our services before you commit to a longer stay.

Just pay $1.00 today and this will give you full access to all the services and features for a full 14 day trial period.

Hope you find everything you are looking for under one roof with unsurpassed quality, see you inside!

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Keith Nickel Langevin is an Internet and Network Marketer who owns and runs many websites. You can read more about his GVO business HERE

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Innovative Affiliate Marketing Strategies

On February 27, 2010, In Affiliate Marketing, Cool Biz, Recommendations, By 5¢

Are your affiliate commissions slumping? Webmasters across the board have noticed a decrease in advertising revenue, a large slump in consumer spending, and a massive change in consumer confidence that’s threatening the online landscape as we know it. With the future of the financial world largely in question, people just aren’t buying online as they once were. No matter what their interests, credit levels or income amounts, sales are down across the board, marketers are packing up shop, and service providers are looking elsewhere for a lucrative future.

It’s not difficult to think that now isn’t the best time to be a marketer. In many ways it’s not. If you’re a fan of conventional thinking you’ll have trouble doing well in this climate. If you’re someone that thinks that throwing money at problems will help fix them, you’re in for a hard run. But if you’re someone that values innovation, creativity and change above all else, you’ll have very little trouble making a truly valuable affiliate marketing income in this climate.

People aren’t afraid to spend. They’re afraid to spend on something that isn’t determined as valuable. If the economic crisis has taught marketers one thing, it’s that the play field has totally changed. People don’t trust big companies and the traditional indicators of success and prestige any more, they trust people like themselves. This is why review websites have become such an important and lucrative market — people need to know that others share their opinion, and understand exactly why and how they’re spending.

If you want to capitalize on this fear of big, just do one simple thing: be small. Small is truly the new big (thanks Seth Godin). Be small, be micro-communities, be something that people can trust as something other than a corporate entity or soulless company.

The funny thing is, those marketers are excelling, and doing more business than ever. By applying these innovative techniques, marketers are maximizing sales and setting new records while others are being lost in the dust. If you want to do the same, and aren’t afraid of trying new things, this report is a must read. Packed with information for maximizing sales, it’s a sure fire way to create new business during tough times.

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So don’t despair; fortune is out there for those who innovate. By applying the strategies in this free report, you can be an innovator rather than a follower, and create the online sales success that you need.

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